Curtain



J. STAM CURTAIN l Filed March 6, 1941 Sept. 23, 1941.

ingenui? 8 ,Jv e ,4% .1@ um F W www ffm m Patented Sept. 23, 1941 CURTAIN .lesse Stam, Newton Center, Mass., assigner to Fairclough & Gold, Inc., Boston, Mass., a cor poration of Massachusetts Application March 6, 1941, Serial No. 381,994

5 Claims.

This invention relates to a curtain or drapery and is concerned with a novel arrangement of curtain body and a two-piece, ruled, marginal band in which two strips are secured to each other and to the body, the arrangement being such that, if desired, these strips can be differentiated from each other, as by making one white and the other colored, or by making one a different color, or by making them in two tones of the same color, although the strips need not be thus differentiated.

The invention will best be understood by reference to the following description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing of one specific embodiment thereof, while its scope will be pointed out more particularly in the appended claims.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is an elevation of a curtain embodying the invention;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view on an enlarged scale on line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is an elevation of the two-piece, marginal band before attachment to the curtain body;

Fig. 4 is a sectional view on line 4 4 of Fig. 3; and

Fig. 5 is an elevation illustrating the marginal band ruied and attached to the body.

Referring to the drawing and to the embodiment of the invention illustrated therein by way of example, and having reference at first to Fig. 1, there is shown a curtain comprising in a general way a web or body G and a two-piece, marginal band 8. In the present example, (see Figs.

3 and 4) the band comprises two strips lil and E2 of appropriate textile material, one of which, herein the band l2 is folded as at I4 to form two plies I6 which in turn, are folded as at i8 and the raw edges 2E) are turned inwardly between the plies iS. As herein shown, the strip l has an outer, picot edge 22 and an inner, raw edge 2d which is inserted between and embraced by the plies I6, and secured in place as by a row of stitching 26. By thus making the band 8 in two pieces lll and i2, the attractiveness of the curtain can be enhanced by making the two pieces of contrasting appearance, as by making the piece lil white, for example, and the piece I2 colored, for example.

The two-piece band, as thus constituted, is then ruilled as a unit (see Fig. 5) and is secured as by two rows of stitching 28 and 30 to the top, bottom and one or both vertical edges of the body 6 which is of appropriate textile material.

Subsequently, the body is folded as at 32 inwardly to form a ply 34 whose raw edge 36 is turned under and is stitched as at 38. This fol-d may be simply an ornamental finish, as in the case of the Vertical edges of the curtain, or in the case of one or both horizontal edges, it may constitute a rod-receiving pocket as in my Patent No. 2,156,231, issued Apr, 25, 1939in which there are pockets at top and bottom and the curtain is reversible.

Having thus described one embodiment of the invention, what I claim and desire by Letters Patent to secure is:

1. In a curtain, the combination of a body, and a marginal band applied to at least one margin of said body, said band comprising two 'strips initially joined together by stitching and rufiied as a unit which is secured to said body by other stitching which retains the ruiiles.

2. In a curtain, the combination of a body, and a marginal band applied to at least one margin of said body, said band comprising two strips, one of which is folded and has its folded edge directed inwardly, said strips being initially joined together by stitching and ruffles as a unit which is secured to said body by other stitching retaining the ruiiles.

3. In a curtain, the combination of a body, and i a marginal band applied to at least one margin of said body, said band comprising two strips, one of which is folded to embrace the other,

-said strips being initially joined together by stitching and ruffled as a unit which is secured to said body by other stitching retaining th ruflies.

4. In a curtain, the combination of a web constituting the body of the curtain, a two-piece, ruled, marginal band in which there are two strips which overlap each other and one overlaps said body portion, an-d stitching extending through both strips and through said body portion and attaching them together.

5. In a curtain, the combination of a web constituting the body of the curtain, a two-piece, ruiiled, marginal band in which there are two strips which overlap each other and both overlap said body portion, stitching extending through both strips and through said body portion and attaching them together, said web having a margin which is turned inwardly and overlies said stitching, and stitching attaching said margin to the body of said web.

JESSE STAM. 

